At the time the race will take place, on May 28, 2016, he will be (almost) 4 years old. His name is Alexandru and he will run to support „Bivoliţa contraatacă” project. (use translate.google.com for a translation of the project from Romanian to English)

The project is about keeping the tradition of raising domestic-buffalos in the southern part of Transylvania. It is also about buying domestic-buffalos from families whose members are not too old or too poor to keep them (also from families who sell the buffalos and buy instead cows), and donating the buffalos to younger families who have possibilities to take care of the buffalos, but don’t have the financial possibilities to buy them. The volunteers are buying ‘pregnant’ female-buffalos, and are donating them to younger families mentioned above.

In 2015 the volunteers bought 4 ‘pregnant’ female-buffalos (each of them at a cost of 3000 lei / ~667 Euro) and gave them to 4 families: from Alțâna, and from Apoș (both places being located in Sibiu county). The buffalos are well integrated at their „adoptive” homes.
Further going-on with the project is a MUST in order to have a positive trend on how people are looking at the domestic-buffalos (not to wish cows instead of buffalos).

To support Alexandru please click here (page available in Romanian, English and German) and fill in the form.